However daunting, permanent weight loss—defined here as a five-year sustained loss—is the most powerful tool available to turn the tide toward health.Anyone who is able to use what has been learned from research findings will have a better chance at achieving life-long weight loss. Roberta Russell welcomes you to hear about the findings in her newly published report.

Advance praise includes:

"...Roberta Russell has written a wonderful book on psychological strategies to help keep weight off. Unlike many others who have written on this topic, ignoring the recent science on the regulation of body weight, Roberta has gone to great lengths to report on the latest science of weight regain. The “Report on Permanent Weight Loss” will enhance the strategies to help individuals maintain weight loss and should be read by everyone who hopes to maintain weight loss long term.” Joseph Proietto, AM, MB BS FRACP PhD Professor Emeritus, University of Melbourne Professor Joseph Proietto is an Endocrinologist specializing in Diabetes and Obesity. Dr. Proietto is a world-renowned investigator of the management of obesity who has just been awarded the AM which is a Government award of an “Order of Australia” in recognition of service to the Community.

"Roberta Russell's report on long-lasting weight loss could not be more timely. Her report is evidence-based and up-to-date. Ms. Russell takes no prisoners; when she finds a scam she lets her readers know it! But when she finds a program that has met her criteria for effective change, she shares the news as well. This magnificent report will be of value to psychotherapists who work in the area of weight control as well as their clients, their clients' families, or simply to anyone for whom dropping the extra pounds is no longer a fad, it is a matter of life and death." Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Saybrook University, Co-author, Personal Mythology, formerly director of the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory

Forewordby T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University and Author of The China Study and more than 300 peer-reviewed studies.

Almost everyone knows that the incidence of obesity has been increasing worldwide for several decades. This is an alarming trend, especially for children who not only are highly likely to become obese when they reach adulthood but also highly likely to suffer the consequences of obesity, as in various kinds of cardiovascular disease (heart attacks, strokes, arteriosclerosis), diabetes, certain cancers and an array of other ailments. The financial burden of obesity, both personally and societally, is huge.

Because so many people are burdened with obesity, there is an enormous market for marketers who promise all manner of cures, very few if any of which works. This is a serious problem that must be resolved for it is a burden for all, regardless of whether they are overweight.

Roberta Russell offers a unique strategy that is not often heard within many scientific disciplines, especially those in nutritional biology. With her experience in psychotherapy and her long time personal experience of having overcome obesity 15 years ago, she has observed that the central issue is behavioral. People simply find it very difficult to do what they want and need to do. They are unable to control the amount of food they consume, for all manner of reasons. Russell refers to this theory, as many others do, as a calorie balance issue, or calories in-calories out. There is no doubt that when more calories are consumed than are expended, body weight increases as energy is stored in the form of body fat, understanding of course that the calories in-calories out hypothesis does not support the consumption of food that has detrimental health effects.

I especially like her telling her personal experience of having reduced and maintained her body weight reduced by 70 pounds while simultaneously providing scientific references that support this viewpoint. I also can personally attest to her impeccable efforts to tell science as it is, without bias unless it is admitted and explained. She has what is too often missed in scientific discussions.

Roberta Russell acknowledges the difficulty that some people have in shifting dietary practices, even when it is highly desirable to do so. It is a matter of social support, personal commitment and record keeping. She has the experience to document this effect, along with related findings from a cohort of more than 10,000 individuals. I suggest Russell’s behavior program for those who struggle with lifestyle change should offer an excellent method for people who wish to achieve a truly healthful weight.

ABOUT THE AUTHORRoberta Russell is also the author of Report on Permanent Weight Loss –2016 (Columbia Academic Commons), RD Laing and Me: Lessons in Love, Hillgarth Press, 1992 and Report on Effective psychotherapy: Legislative Testimony, 1994.A successful weight-loss story herself, Roberta is the founder of New York Calorie and Exercise Logging Groups and the award-winning Mutual Alliance Therapy Workshops. Russell was previously president of a NYC-based company that served corporations searching for data processing professionals.

The fruits of research have given me the tools to transform from obese to normal and maintain a normal weight since 2000 (16 years.)

If you would like to lose weight permanently or know someone who would, read the information on this web site. Then, if you are sufficiently motivated you may wish to become a part of new free permanent weight loss group.

Read the downloadable Report on Permanent Weight Loss on your computer rather than printing it out because parts are hyperlinked.

Watch the the "Escape the Fat Trap" videoed talk below.

Email rr3067@tc.columbia.eduto see the upcoming talk live on a video in person or livestream. Look for more resources at the bottom of the page.

See the talk seminar by Roberta Russell on What Research Reveals About Permanent Weight Loss that was presented at Gracie Square Hospital at 420 East 76 St., NYC, NY (auditorium 100) through this video of the event along with a preamble explaining how she arrived at her research-inspired method for permanent weight loss.

A 1995 video clip of a much heavier Roberta Russell suggesting the formation of a free calorie and exercise logging group to G. Terence Wilson, Ph.D., distinguished professor of Clinical psychology at Rutgers University

If you or someone you care for are ready to lose weight permanently, consider using our methods at no cost now or later.

The Free New York Calorie & Exercise Logging Groups and their former members have broken traditional weight-Loss records because they employ the demonstrably most successful methods to achieve permanent weight loss. They keep track of their eating and exercise and account to each other in order to keep both of these behaviors within agreed upon parameters that will accomplish their weight loss and maintenance objectives.

This can be done in online groups using Skype to meet on-line with video conferencing from the privacy and convenience of our own homes, without any regard for geographical boundaries. Thanks to the convenience of video conferencing, we have become the World-Wide Calorie and Exercise group.

We simply do what works as a service and are not as a money-making endeavor. Our method is modeled after the most successful long-term weight loss programs. Our free program puts things in perspective and allows our members a chance to monitor their actions that influence weight and get them under control. It is an excellent model for free community-based on-going weight loss programs that can be run in schools, libraries, community or religious centers or places of business.The now World-Wide Calorie & Exercise Logging Groups research-supported methods can include:​·Weekly group support·Keeping and sharing a daily written record of food and calories eaten &·Exercise expended (specified in calories burned)·Using the principles of good nutrition to balance energy requirements in the most healthful way, while successfully controlling hunger.If you prefer doing this on your own, knowing what the research has revealed to be most effective will still give you a better chance of achieving long term weight loss.